Autumn Term Rotation 1
LEARNING QUEST - Forest Adventure
Entry Point - A Forest Adventure(planned trip)
MATHEMATICS
Rec & KS1 - Number and Place Value;
Addition and Subtraction; Money;
Measures and Shape; Doubling and
Halving; Data.
Year 3/4 - Number, Place Value and
Money; Mental and Written Addition and
Subtraction; Shape, Mental Multiplication
and Division; Measures (time); Data;
Fractions.
Year 5/6 - Addition, Number and Place
Value; Subtraction; Shape and Measure;
Multiplication and Division; Fractions;
Measures and Data.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND DESIGN
Art and design Rec & KS1 - Collage, Textiles, Drawing.
Year 3/4 - Pattern.
Year 5/6 - Sculpture.
Music Rec & KS1 - Mood music, Instruments
made from natural materials.
Year 3/4 - Mood Music-Making.
Year 5/6 - Journey through a forest
exploring musical duration of notes.
Design and technology Rec & KS1 - Making Rainforest
Instruments (focus = materials).
Year 3/4 - Making bird houses (focus =
Construction).
Year 5/6 - Making bird hides for ‘Dragon’s
Den’ (focus = Construction & Materials).
Exit Point - Plant a ‘mini’ forest
ENGLISH
Rec & KS1 - Fairy Tales; Poems about the senses; Letters and
Invitations; Non-fiction.
Year 3/4 - Fairy stories; Recounts; Shape poems and calligrams;
Reference texts (key skills).
Year 5/6 - Myths and Legends (Vikings);
Persuasive writing (Environmental issues); Formal letters; Modern
Poetry; Reference texts.
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD
Science Rec & KS1 - Common wild and garden plants; Identify basic structure
of common flowering plants and trees; Plants and animals in their
habitats including micro-habitats.
Year 3/4 - Identify functions of different flowering plants; Explore the
requirements of plants for life and growth; Pollination, seed formation
and seed dispersal; Living things and their habitats - grouping and
classification.
Year 5/6 - Life cycles of mammal, amphibian, insect and bird; Describe
life process of reproduction in some plants and animals; Classification
of living things including micro-organisms, plants and animals;
Adaptation.
Geography Rec & KS1 - forest, hill, mountains, river, valley, vegetation; Devise
maps; Seasonal and daily weather patterns and the location of hot and
cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and North and South
Poles.
Year 3/4 - Location and Climate of Rainforests (Physical Geography).
Year 5/6 - Saving the Rainforest (Human Geography).
History Rec & KS1 - First World War and Remembrance Day
Year 3/4 - Britain from Stone Age to Iron Age
Year 5/6 - the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for England 789-1066
Drama - Journey through the
forest/forest animals. Christmas Nativity,
Harvest Festival.
RE - Harvest; Christmas.
Rec & KS1 - the importance of Jesus to Christians.
Year 3/4 - Hindu stories.
Year 5/6 - Jesus, His teachings and His followers.
PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
SEAL - New Beginnings. How do we feel
in our special place (under the trees)?
Getting on and Falling out. Anti-bullying.
Health - Survival skills (linked to Science).
Computing Rec, KS1 and KS2 - Coding using Espresso; Communicating using Word
and Powerpoint.
KS2 Languages - French vocabulary and reading, writing and speaking
simple phrases.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Physical Education - Rec & KS1 - Basic Gym/Big apparatus (climbing through the forest); body control; dance and
multi-skills. Year 3/4 - Gym; Handball/Hockey; Dance. Year 5/6 - Swimming; Netball.
Outdoor Education - Forest school activities.